GOOS-Brazil

The GLOSS-Brazil Project is composed by a cooperative network of public and private institutions that operate, finance, maintain and disseminate sea level measurements, according to the standards established by IOC/UNESCO.

Management of the GLOSS-Brazil project is conducted by an Executive Sub- Committee on Sea Level Monitoring (Comitê Executivo de Monitoramento do Nível do Mar (CEMNM)) that operates as part of the mandate attributed to the Executive Committee of the GOOS-Brazil Program. It is coordinated by the Centre for Hydrography of DHN (CHM), and is presently composed by representatives from the following public and private institutions:

• Diretoria de Hidrografia e Navegação (DHN) e o Centro de Hidrografia da Marinha (CHM) (Coordenador nacional);
• Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE);
• Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo (IOUSP);
• Centro de Estudos do Mar da Universidade Federal do Paraná (CEM);
• Coordenação de Programas de Pós Graduação em Engenharia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (COPPE);
• Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande (FURG);
• Gerência Geral do Porto de Ponta da Madeira (Companhia do Vale do Rio Doce);
• Terminal Especializado de Barra do Riacho (PORTOCEL);
• Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE);
• Instituto de Pesquisas Hidroviárias (INPH);
• Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE);
• Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA); and
• Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES).

The Brazilian National Oceanographic Data center (Banco Nacional de Dados Oceanográficos, BNDO), operated by the CHM, receives all the data sets related to the GLOSS-BRAZIL Program. BNDO already maintains a database, a technical library as well as a warehouse of analog charts and paper documents yet to be digitized.